Acknowledgements

Media Working Group

is a non-profit media education, production, and development organization providing an organizational framework for artists and media educators to conduct diverse multi-disciplinary work in media culture. It is a hybrid of a media arts center, media institute, arts incubator, and artist network. MWG is designed to stimulate and support the creation of video, film, and web-based media. Its training and education are designed to encourage critical understanding of the artistic, social and cultural impact of the media.

 

Media Working Group documentaries and feature films have enjoyed national and international attention and distribution on BBC 2, BBC World Services, WNET-NY, POV, The Discovery/Learning Channel, national and regional PBS.

 

Active Voice

is a team of strategic communication specialists who put powerful media to work for personal and institutional change in communities, workplaces and campuses across America. Through practical guides, hands-on workshops, stimulating events and key partnerships nationwide, Active Voice moves people from thought to action. By highlighting compelling personal stories and perspectives seldom found in mainstream media, Active Voice offers a much-needed outlet for people across America to speak out, listen up and take the initiative for positive change.

 

action toolkit credits

 

Writer

Britt Wahlin, Active Voice Consultant

 

Researcher

Jennifer Cecil Moore, Active Voice Consultant

 

Design

Randall Wright, Media Working Group

 

the gender chip project production team

 

Producer and Director

Helen DeMichiel

 

Executive Producer

Jean Donohue and Fred Johnson, Media Working Group

 

the gender chip project curriculum team\

Samuel D. Henry, Ed. D. Portland State University, Portland, Oregon

 

Wendi Laurence, M.A. Portland State University, Portland, Oregon

 

project funders

National Science Foundation

 

Ohio State University’s Wexner Center for the Arts Media Program

 

Ohio State University Offices of Academic Affairs & Student Affairs

 

Ohio Arts Council

 

Media Working Group

 

pilot workshop partners

Exploratorium

Hughes Center High School for Teaching and Technology

IGNITE

Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology

Raytheon Company

University of North Texas

University of Wisconsin System Women and Science Program

 

© Media Working Group and Helen DeMichiel 2005.